"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."

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"We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians."

Chad Smith, American Musician

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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

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"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."

Rita Coolidge, American Musician

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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

John Mayall, British Musician

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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."

Rita Coolidge, American Musician

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"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

Toots Thielemans, Belgian Musician

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"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."

Norman Granz, American Musician

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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."

Norman Granz, American Musician

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"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

Andy Summers, English Musician

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